Socially Disruptive Technologies, Contextual Integrity, and Conservatism About Moral Change

Title

Socially Disruptive Technologies, Contextual Integrity, and Conservatism About Moral Change

 Author

van de Poel, I.R. (TU Delft Values Technology and Innovation; TU Delft Ethics & Philosophy of Technology) ORCID 0000-0002-9553-5651

 Department

Values Technology and Innovation

 Date

2022

 Abstract

This commentary is a response to Contextual Integrity as a General Conceptual Tool for Evaluating Technological Change by Elizabeth O’Neill (Philosophy & Technology (2022)). It argues that while contextual integrity (CI) might be an useful addition to the toolkit of approaches for ethical technology assessment, a CI approach might not be able to uncover all morally relevant impacts of technological change. Moreover, the inherent conservatism of a CI approach might be problematic in cases in which we encounter new kinds of morally problematic situations, such as climate change, or when technology reinforces historically grown injustices.

 Subject

Contextual integrity
Disruptive technologies
Ethics
Technological change
Technomoral change
Value change

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 DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-022-00578-4

 ISSN

2210-5433

 Source

Philosophy & Technology, 35 (3)

 Part of collection

Institutional Repository

 Document type

journal article

 Rights

© 2022 I.R. van de Poel
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